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House moves to concur on STD prevention bill after lengthy debate over private providers
Summary
After extended floor debate about whether private clinics should be listed as resources, the Utah House voted 50–17 to concur with Senate amendments to H.B. 15 (control and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases) and will forward the bill to the Senate for the president's signature.
The Utah House on March 5 voted 50–17 to concur with Senate amendments to H.B. 15, a bill described by supporters as a public-awareness effort to inform residents where to obtain testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases.
Representative Reesen, who led the motion to refuse to concur earlier in the day, framed the issue as one of access in rural areas and urged colleagues to allow the Department of Health to list private providers as resources. "The amendments to this bill made in the Senate basically mean that any private agency that provides testing or treatment for the [STDs] that this bill…
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